Life after Firefox

We all know the time is coming. There is a thread over at Mozillazine - Which Browser for You After Firefox 57? - that I occasionally look at. Last night a mention of Vivaldi caught my eye and I did something I rarely do . . . I installed it! I was prepared for a quick uninstall but was surprised that I actually am liking it. First thing was to get Adblock Plus on there. The syntax is a little different than I'm used to but workable. There is a nice neutral gray theme. Video works ootb and even jitsi! Not too happy with the licensing though. Has anybody else given it a spin?

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Probably been over a year since I tried Vivaldi. I liked it, but there were hardly any plugins available for it at the time. Perhaps I should revisit it?

One of my favorite alternative browsers is Slimjet. Built off Chromium, but it uses less RAM than Chromium and Firefox. One downside is that it has to be reinstalled when new versions are released. It's easily done with .deb packages though.

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Probably been over a year since I tried Vivaldi. I liked it, but there were hardly any plugins available for it at the time. Perhaps I should revisit it?

It's using plugins from the Chrome app store. Isn't that the road that FF has taken also?

MiyoLinux wrote:

One of my favorite alternative browsers is Slimjet. Built off Chromium, but it uses less RAM than Chromium and Firefox. One downside is that it has to be reinstalled when new versions are released. It's easily done with .deb packages though.

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golinugolinux wrote:

MiyoLinux wrote:

One of my favorite alternative browsers is Slimjet. Built off Chromium, but it uses less RAM than Chromium and Firefox. One downside is that it has to be reinstalled when new versions are released. It's easily done with .deb packages though.

I have been Devuanated, and my practice in the art of Devuanism shall continue until my Devuanization is complete. Until then, I will strive to continue in my understanding of Devuanchology, Devuanprocity, and Devuanivity.

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It doesn't appear to be free as in beer.....

Freeware License

Slimjet Web Browser is released under the freeware license. It is free both for personal use and commerical use. It is free to be distributed over the internet and/or through offline distribution channels as long as it is kept in its original form without any change. Bundling Slimjet with other software in another installer is strictly prohibited.

Edit: Just installed it to test it out, some sites are definately faster, however, Youtube videos won't/don't play!

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Actually, it IS free as in beer (gratis) - it's not free as in speech (libre). I.e., it is not open source nor free software. I checked out the website and got a bit of a bad vibe...

FOSSuser wrote:

It doesn't appear to be free as in beer.....

Freeware License

Slimjet Web Browser is released under the freeware license. It is free both for personal use and commerical use. It is free to be distributed over the internet and/or through offline distribution channels as long as it is kept in its original form without any change. Bundling Slimjet with other software in another installer is strictly prohibited.

Edit: Just installed it to test it out, some sites are definately faster, however, Youtube videos won't/don't play!

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Being free software is a must-have for me--I just cannot trust an internet-facing "blackbox" running on my system. Vivaldi is proprietary software, unfortunately.

Here's a short list of free software alternatives available today:

- GNU Icecat- Waterfox- Chromium*

* Being made by Google, I'd only use Chromium as an absolute last resort. Remember, your browsing data is Google's main "product".

P.S. In general, when looking for "alternatives to X software", I always go back to this resource: https://prism-break.org/en/(Unfortunately, in the GNU/Linux section, Web Browsers subsection, Firefox currently is their main recommendation.)

The intent of the software developer comes to a point in the chosen license. Software under a free license = free software.

* Hopefully the license is prominently listed on the project's website. Not finding the license on the project's website is usually a bad sign, but not always. If you can't find the license on the project's website, check Wikipedia. If Wikipedia has an article about the project, the license will be right in the infobox.

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@golinux: A disadvantage of GNU Icecat, given your reason for looking at alternatives, is that it tracks Firefox versions.

@pekman: I tried Pale Moon and am quite impressed. Thank you for the recommendation. My mini-review:

- it is free software (MPL 2.0)- there is a portable, distro-agnostic version for linux (the bzipped tarball available here: http://linux.palemoon.org/download/mainline)- the bzipped tarball worked out of the box for me, including sound and video- Pale Moon was forked from Firefox years ago, so no recent or future Firefox shenanigans to worry about- it is compatible with any Firefox plugin that works in Firefox 24 (see http://www.palemoon.org/faq.shtml)- note that user profile is saved to "~/.moonchild productions" and not ~/.palemoon as one might expect

I predict Pale Moon will be my default browser when Firefox runs off the cliff.

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Seamonkey user here yip old school Mozilla. though I wonder, Seamonkey and other Firefox based browsers, how long do they have?Seamonkey 2.46 is based on Firefox 49 but eventually they are going to get to 57 and then what? I don't think they are big enough to go it alone.

I have Vivaldi installed and it's a good browser, I will try GNU Icecat looks interesting, hmmm maybe I'll just go back to using Lynx!

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I, too, am liking Palemoon. Firefox is not crashy for me at all, just s l o w. A release or two ago something seemed to really change. I've tried all the browsers, and Palemoon is probably going to be my daily driver. Actually, it is already.

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Switched to Palemoon few months ago. They maintain few useful addons I love like Tree Style Tabs.

I wished I didn't have to but Firefox became unusable. I cannot fathom what it will become in 57.I'm still going to keep Firefox-ESR for banking applications since I'm fairly reluctant to trust a bunch of furries on security, but If anyone wishes to prove me that I'm wrong I will be eager to listen, that would make one less browser to worry about.

And Chromium for all assortments of botnet features like Google Accounts, YouTube and social media.